TECHNOLOGY

LOS ANGELES, JAN 5 - Rapper Kanye West had the Twitterverse buzzing on Thursday after posting a series of more than 80 tweets in a train of thoughts that left many fans and critics scratching their heads.

Apple's new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed.

Apple's new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, estimated on Friday its October-December profit would jump 73 percent to a life-time high, aided by one-off gains and record-smashing sales of smartphones.

Kanye West had the Twitterverse buzzing on Thursday after posting a series of more than 80 tweets in a train of thoughts that left many fans and critics scratching their heads.

Reddit.com, the wildly-popular online community, received 2.07 billion pageviews in December 2011 alone, capping a year in which the site's traffic doubled the hits it received in 2010.

Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case.

The former CEO of Japan's Olympus Corp, Michael Woodford, said on Friday he is dropping his bid to retake control of the troubled company.

The former CEO of Japan's Olympus Corp, Michael Woodford, said on Friday he is dropping his bid to retake control of the troubled company.

When Lauren Bossers, who lives in Pittsburgh, worked for a supply chain management software company in Dallas, she dealt with work and staff in the main office virtually, by phone and email. When she was laid off after her company was acquired in January 2010, well, that happened by phone, too.

Vinton Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the Internet," has written an op-ed in the New York Times that argues against the notion that the internet is a human right. He also says the internet is not a civil right. I disagree with the latter.

A group of file-sharers in Sweden has managed to get the government to recognize it as a religious community.

When Lauren Bossers, who lives in Pittsburgh, worked for a supply chain management software company in Dallas, she dealt with work and staff in the main office virtually, by phone and email. When she was laid off after her company was acquired in January 2010, well, that happened by phone, too.

British youngsters adopted after abusive childhoods are at risk of fresh emotional turmoil as some birth parents turn to Facebook and other social networking sites to track them down, adoption agencies said on Thursday.

The white Samsung Galaxy Nexus is expected to hit stores in the UK in the next two weeks and the U.S launch will follow in early February, according to Expansys.com.

Ancestry.com Inc reported a 22 percent jump in subscribers in 2011 and a marginal fall in fourth-quarter churn, sending its shares up as much as 20 percent.

MetroPCS reported fourth-quarter net subscriber growth that missed analyst expectations even as it posted a smaller-than-expected customer cancellation rate.

Global mobile phone shipments is likely to grow at a much slower pace of 2 percent this year as customers hold back on new phone purchases, Credit Suisse said.

The ASUS Transformer Prime Eee Pad tablet has had a critical week, first launching with severe delays then failing on GPS performance, but ASUS has finally announced some good news; the bootloader, which is currently locked, will be unlocked sometime in the future.

Struggling phone maker Nokia Oyj basked in brightening prospects for its much-hyped Windows phone on Thursday as it prepared to strengthen the hand of new boss Stephen Elop by replacing its old-guard chairman.

The former CEO of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp, Briton Michael Woodford, returned to Japan on Thursday where he said he will decide the future of his bid to return to his old post.

The surprise departure of PayPal President Scott Thompson from eBay Inc could seriously set back any moves to spin-off the payments business as a separate company, investors and analysts said on Wednesday.

Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case.

Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case.

A sect of self-proclaimed digital pirates, which believes information is holy and copying is a sacrament, has been recognized as an official religion in Sweden.

The board of directors of the Finnish-based phone maker Nokia will propose Risto Siilasmaa as its next chairman after its long-time leader, Jorma Ollila, steps down in May, the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper said, citing unnamed sources.

Yahoo named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its chief executive on Wednesday, hoping the well-regarded Internet technology and e-commerce expert will replicate his success at eBay Inc and turn around the struggling company.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime has hit stores with high expectation especially with its Tegra 3 quad core processor. However users have become disappointed to find that Asus has unveiled the Prime tablet with bootloader locked.

Verizon Wireless expects to report a decline of up to 6 percentage points in its fourth quarter gross profit margins on strong sales of the Apple Inc iPhone and other devices, according to a top executive for its parent company.